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EU To Slap Google With Record Fine This Week, Sources Say

The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator will slap Google with a record two billion euro fine as early as Tuesday in...

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EU To Slap Google With Record Fine This Week

The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator will slap Google with a record fine as early as Tuesday in another European blow...

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Chevron Prevails In Ecuador Pollution Battle At US Supreme Court

Oil giant Chevron prevailed in a long-running legal battle over pollution in Ecuador, with the US Supreme Court...

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Google Pledges To Tackle YouTube Terror Videos

Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online. Among the...

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AfDB and JICA Sign Seventh Private Sector Assistance Loan

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a JPY 34.41 billion (about US$ 300 million)  loan...

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Bumble Bee To Plead Guilty In Tuna Price Fixing Case

Iconic American tuna brand Bumble Bee Foods agreed to plead guilty and pay a $25 million fine for conspiring to fix...

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Volkswagen Pleads Guilty In U.S. Court In Diesel Emissions Scandal

Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p. DE) pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud, obstruction of justice and falsifying statements as part...

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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions Quits Russia Probe

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has bowed to pressure and removed himself from an FBI inquiry into alleged Russian...

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PSA Pledges To Keep Opel’s Four German Sites Running

PSA Group (PEUP. PA) has pledged to the German government to continue operating all four of Opel's German production...

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Apple Files $1bn Lawsuit Against Chip Supplier Qualcomm

Apple Inc filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the U. S. government accused...

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Apple Fights Back With Appeal Against EU Irish Tax Ruling

Apple has filed an appeal against a European Union ruling that it should pay up to €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes in...

International

Trump Assembles A Team of Billionaires

President-elect Donald Trump, who raged against the elite as a candidate, is populating his administration with the...

International

Millions Voted Illegally In Presidential Poll

US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of...

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Trump Attacks Clinton Over Wisconsin Vote Recount

US President-elect Donald Trump has attacked Hillary Clinton over her campaign’s support for a recount of votes in...

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Wisconsin Recount Push Is Scam

Republican President-elect Donald Trump has described an impending recount of votes in Wisconsin as a "scam". Mr Trump,...

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Clinton To Participate In Wisconsin Recount

Hilary Clinton's campaign on Saturday said that it would participate in a recount initiated by Green Party nominee Jill...

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Clinton Urged To Challenge US Election Results

Hillary Clinton's campaign is being urged by a number of top computer scientists to call for a recount of vote totals...

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Google Formally Rejects EU Antitrust Charges

Google (GOOGL. O) on Thursday formally rejected European Union antitrust charges of unfairly promoting its shopping...

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How Republicans Lobbied To Limit Voting Hours In North Carolina

When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a...